Your feelings about personal ads

[WriterDom]

I don't have a problem with bdsm personal ads in this forum. They are easy enough to skip over if you aren't interested, and could draw more people into our party. Yeah, they could take over the board, but I doubt that would happen. And on the downside, it could usher in a few nuts.

 

[James Blandings]

I voted No because I have sen other frums where they were allowed and the board was taken over by trolls. If people would just post personals in specific threads that would be ok, but they won't, they will interrupt discussion in other threads too.

 

[Frouwa_Aph]

I'm undecided about the issue, so I voted maybe. I see the problems James stated as well, but this forum is full of good vibes, so I guess we can ward off trolls.

Monika

 

[pierced_boy]

Give it a try

.

 

[yuppietowngirl]

Personal Ads

There is a section on Literotica for Personals...but why can't they make another one for Literotica BDSM Personals. That way if you wanted to check out the ads...you could go there. Instead of wading thru the threads just to get past them (if there were too many posted) if you were not interested in reading the ads.

Just a thought.

 

[lovetoread]

Let them post the ads here.

When you try to put an ad in for an alternative lifestyle over there, you wouldnt believe the responses you get.

Put some sort of rule in that when you post you have to post in this thread only and if they ignore it,then remove their ads.

 

[lasavane]

Why not make a thread within the board just for personals. This way they wouldn't keep other topics from being near the top of the list.

lasavane

 

[SierraMoon]

Why not make a thread within the board just for personals. This way they wouldn't keep other topics from being near the top of the list.

lasavane

In my opinion, this would be the way to do it, because i can imagine on the other board, you could get a bunch of nuts replying to ads for alternative lifestyles... people who don't understand or appreciate the lifestyle. So, if you started a thread in the BDSM talk section, it may help weed out some of the naive people, and make it easier for people in the lifestyle to find people they might be interested in meeting, without having to sort through the non-BDSM personals also... just my opinion... take care... sierra

 

[CarolineOh]

The idea of a permanent personals thread makes sense. The moderators can move posts can't they? If someone posts in the wrong area, just move it to the personals thread, and everyone is happy.

 

[MissTaken]

I visit the personals board fairly frequently. Yes, I think posting a BDSM personal there will lead to a lot of fluff and frustration. The threads move very quickly and the posts are soon buried.

In posting personals here, it also serves those of us frequenting the forum to greet and get to know new people as they wander in, trying to find their "lit sea legs."

 

[cellis]

I agree that we should just start a personals thread... this will alleviate some of the problems we have had with people posting personal here and being sent away... It will also keep others from being offended by those who post them in the wrong place... and I think, too, save a lot of hard feelings...

So somebody start a new thread...

 

[petrel]

Yes- definatly a sperate thread within this board.
The standard personals board is terrible for BDSM/alternative posters

hey if no-one else starts one maybe I will (not for myself you understand!)

 

[fallon2]

Yes

Yes, let's try it and see where it goes.

 

[RisiaSkye]

I was one of the few "no" respondents on here, but I can see that I'm in the minority on this one. I can live with that, so long as it doesn't become one big meet-n-greet grope fest around here. I've been in too many places (like bondage.com) where it's just a big dating service, and it gets boring really quickly.

Then again, what do I know? By all accounts, not too much. And, again, I'm fine with that.

 

[Richard49]

We need something...but......

A thread? Individual adds will get lost.
A speical section of the board? maybe...but how do we keep the freaks away

The existing personal board seems more like a gab group and real ads get buried

Just my 2 cents

Richard

 

[BlondGirl]

Those of you who voted yes, please go over and look at the personals board and see what occurs already.

1.) The titles of the threads usually don't represent what is inside. (A perfect example of this was the one posted here this weekend. It pisses me off to waste my limited time here with morons who don't indicate their angle or what the purpose of the thread is for.)

2.) The same creature often posts an ad and then a separate one and then a separate one and...

3.) The creature posts a zillion times in one day and never returns (but leaves us with the clutter).


The personal ad thread is a swell idea, but do you really think that the troll-morons will follow that rule once they learn that kinky folks are willing to be subjected to ads on this board?

Obviously, my vote is NO. Not all of us are in the market right now and for those of us that are, we know how and where to post personal ads for potential SM partners.

 

[WriterDom]

I think a thread is worth trying for a few weeks. If it causes too many problems we can delete it, and point future ad posters to the personal board.

 

[MissTaken]

Good idea.

Try it. See what gliches will pop up or if interest wanes. I do believe that among BDSMers at lit, the "matchmaking" is more likely to happen behind the scenes in pm's etc as a result of posting to the topic threads.

But, that is just my opinion.

 

[Sex & Diamonds]

I think it's a good idea.


but that's just me.

 

[AnonymousSlave]

Opinion


i may not post a lot but i do like reading what others have to say, and honestly i don't want to read the personals since they don't apply to me. i'm not looking and if i were, i'd go to the section for personals not the discussion section. i really don't want to have to sift through personal ads to find intelligent conversation.
Think of it this way if you want, a newspaper is broken into several sections. When was the last time you saw a personals section in with the sports? Would it look something like... 'Huge sports fan looking for fun playmate to attend games'? Or in the obits (uh, yea, i do have a sick mind) 'Just lost my wife, looking for a replacement'? I don't think so.
Nope sorry but my mind is made up, the personals belong in the personals section.

 

[James Blandings]

I was one of the few "no" respondents on here, but I can see that I'm in the minority on this one. I can live with that, so long as it doesn't become one big meet-n-greet grope fest around here. I've been in too many places (like bondage.com) where it's just a big dating service, and it gets boring really quickly.

Then again, what do I know? By all accounts, not too much. And, again, I'm fine with that.

I agree with you 100%, but like you said, I can live with the majority decision.

 

[Ebonyfire]

I don't have a problem with bdsm personal ads in this forum. They are easy enough to skip over if you aren't interested, and could draw more people into our party. Yeah, they could take over the board, but I doubt that would happen. And on the downside, it could usher in a few nuts.

I am not talking about anyone in particular, but there are already a few nuts on Lit.

Ebony

 

[Richard49]

Re: Re: Your feelings about personal ads

I am not talking about anyone in particular, but there are already a few nuts on Lit.

Ebony

and some squirels also

 

[petrel]

Re: Re: Re: Your feelings about personal ads

and some squirels also

*giggle* - and when would we see you up in the trees chasing those bushy tails?

 

[Richard49]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Your feelings about personal ads

*giggle* - and when would we see you up in the trees chasing those bushy tails?

If I could see a busy tail I would chase it